Long-form writing from leading scholars and commentators on history, statecraft, warfare, philosophy and culture.
Germany today struggles to muster a serious military response to the Russian challenge. That should trouble keen observers of Europe's history.
An automaton chess player bewitched the public of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - but its real value was all-too-human.
War challenges all assumptions, and nowhere is this clearer in Ukraine’s historic – and strategically placed – Black Sea port. Its citizens have – mostly – turned their back on Rus..
Benjamin Constant’s considered response not only to the mass murder inflicted by the French Revolution, but to the attempt to reduce the whole French population to the condition of..
Finland’s path towards NATO may have been a long one, but Finland is in no sense a reluctant ally.
Now a firm tenet of American romantic popular imagination, Lewis and Clark’s early nineteenth-century expedition, sponsored by Thomas Jefferson, was also a pragmatic one, which led..
The passion of Hilma af Klint in every sense – sexual, aesthetic, and religious – is the key to her art.
Taiwan’s hi-tech revolution began with a vision – now the small island-state has captured around sixty per cent of the world market in semiconductor chips, used in everything from ..
‘Read history, poetry’, urged the historian David McCullough. When combined, as the ancients knew, history and poetry offer an incomparable insight into the human condition.
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